# This is how you add a Jenkins slave # On master: sudo -u jenkins -H ssh-keygen # On slave adduser --system --group --home=/var/lib/jenkins-slave --no-create-home --disabled-password --quiet --shell /bin/bash jenkins-slave install -d -o jenkins-slave -g jenkins-slave /var/lib/jenkins-slave install -d -m 700 -o jenkins-slave -g jenkins-slave /var/lib/jenkins-slave/.ssh vi /var/lib/jenkins-slave/.ssh/authorized_keys copy jenkinsmasterhost:/var/lib/jenkins/ssh/id_rsa.pub # On master sudo -u jenkins -H ssh jenkins-slave@muskatas # remember the host key # Now you can add an SSH slave through the Jenkins web UI, it'll download all the Java .jars automatically # (you may need to sudo apt-get install openjdk or something on the slave machine) # To allow the slave to get access to git repos on mygitserver, run this on the slave machine: sudo -u jenkins-slave -H ssh-keygen # On mygitserver adduser --system --group --home=/var/lib/jenkins-slave --no-create-home --disabled-password --quiet --shell /usr/bin/git-shell jenkins-slave install -d -o jenkins-slave -g jenkins-slave /var/lib/jenkins-slave install -d -m 700 -o jenkins-slave -g jenkins-slave /var/lib/jenkins-slave/.ssh vi /var/lib/jenkins-slave/.ssh/authorized_keys copy /var/lib/jenkins-slave/ssh/id_rsa.pub from the slave machine # On slave sudo -u jenkins-slave -H ssh mygitserver # remember the host key sudo -u jenkins-slave -H git config --global user.name 'Jenkins' sudo -u jenkins-slave -H git config --global user.email 'root@example.com'